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Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Anderssen Defense

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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.Bc4Bc54.b4Bxb45.c3Ba56.O-ONf67.d4exd4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Evans Gambit, Anderssen Defense146k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
e563%92k47%
cxd422%33k46%
Ba35.9%8.6k57%
Qb35.2%7.7k42%
Bg51.8%2.6k45%
Nxd40.8%1.2k39%
Ng50.6%83242%
Re10.3%37541%
Bxf7+0.2%35546%
Bb20%3944%
Famous games in this line45 master games
Umansky, Mikhail Markovich (2670)Timmerman, Gert Jan (2706)2005½–½Sveshnikov, Evgeny (2580)Graf, Alexander (2585)1995½–½Hoyos Millán, Luis Bernardo (2560)Voiculescu, Costel (2573)2010½–½Sveshnikov, Evgeny (2595)Scekic, Milos (2430)1998½–½Grosar, Aljosa (2495)Scekic, Milos (2400)1997½–½Quevedo García, Vicente (2386)Martín Molinero, Raúl (2426)2022½–½Kostin, Alexey (2387)Rodin, Dmitrij (2421)20040–1Corbat, Philippe (2351)Mathe, Iosif (2410)2006½–½
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The Italian Game is in the Göttingen manuscript and Polerio's notebooks — chess players have been putting the bishop on c4 for more than four centuries. It fell out of top-level fashion for decades, then returned as a main weapon of Carlsen and Caruana, proving the oldest plans still bite.

Category
Open
First move
1.e4
ECO
C52
Line
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O Nf6 7. d4 exd4
GambitClassical
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